Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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We were descended from royalty.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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I hate birthdays.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.
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Willow, things feel more uncertain than ever now," He said finally. "But I love you. For as long as I live - if that's fifty years from now, or just next week - I'll love you.
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Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
